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"We covered the different types of essays and essay structure. The student is struggling with structuring his essays, often conflating several paragraphs and then having difficulty identifying topic sentences. We also covered punctuation and reviewed there and their. We brainstormed for a paper analyzing Batman's character in the texts we covered over the winter holiday break. The student has a receptive and willing attitude. We also covered strategies for reviewing essays and research papers including reading aloud. He was left with an assignment to revise an essay from earlier this year and submit it to me for review. The biggest win for this session was our brainstorming; he has strong and appropriate ideas for analyzing the assigned texts."

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"We continued working on English in this session. The first part of the lesson focused on the different uses of apostrophes and colons. I made sure to review the meanings of a lot of the technical terms that her teacher used since they weren't defined in the lesson (appositive, for instance). I also tried to give her some concrete examples of the abstract grammatical concepts being described (joint possessive pronouns, for instance). She did a great job on her quiz (100%), and we moved on to the lesson on pronouns. This should help her as she moves through the rest of the lesson."

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"The student is an extremely intelligent and friendly girl with a fantastic memory. Today, we just got to know each other a little bit and worked through an ELA essay passage with questions. We discussed the importance of marking our readings with underlines and other notes that would be helpful. Moving forward, it seems she does not have much of an issue with reading comprehension (although more practice never hurts) but could stand to benefit from some help with writing and organizing thoughts. She does not seem to have much of an issue with the logic of the questions on the ELA exam, but she does seem to find the essay portions a little mystifying. I would suggest this should be the main area of focus in future sessions."

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"The student and I reviewed two homework assignments: one involving answering questions about an article and another involving constructing a narrative involving a moral. He was engaged throughout the session. We focused on articulating his ideas more clearly and organizing his thoughts in a straightforward manner as well as grammatical structure. He seems to be gaining confidence in his ability to complete his English assignments, and this shows in our recent sessions."

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"Today the student practiced her spelling and vocabulary words and did very well on this. She also worked on rhyming with words from a word bank. She also used vocabulary words to complete sentences. She practiced working with adjectives and the conjunctions and, but, or, and so."

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"We did the listening section of the state assessment practice booklet today. We worked on spelling words with the -ent -ant endings. The student was quizzed on these words. We discussed antonyms and completed a worksheet. He had independent reading time for the book left from his school "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." He will be doing a daily log on his readings. He is always willing to complete assignments."

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"The students are intelligent, focused, and motivated. In our first session we reviewed their particular needs and goals with respect to English II. We focused on homework completion, comprehension of new material, and exam preparation. Student 1 wrote sentences for his vocabulary words; his sentence composition, structure, and rhythm are extremely advanced. We also began reviewing grammar, including abstract and concrete nouns, auxiliary verbs, and linking verbs. Student 2 reviewed the elements of poetry for an upcoming exam. His focus and ability to follow directions was very good, as was his comprehension and memory."

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"The student wants to advance her conversational skills. She covers a lot of vocabulary in her ESL classes but does not feel completely confident when she speaks. She struggles the most with verb conjugation and general lack of vocabulary knowledge. She has a very positive attitude and is willing to practice as much as possible. Because it was the first session, I was mostly trying to get the feel for what her biggest problem areas were. I advised her to try to look for similarities between words in Spanish and English for clues as to the meaning of the word. I left her with 3 practice exercises that dealt with verb conjugation and dialogue. She has a B in her English class but we hope to improve her English understanding in order to achieve an A. I intend to develop a worksheet of common verbs with conjugation shortcuts and a comprehensive dialogue practice sheet for next time."

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"We covered some science topics for the student's quiz tomorrow. We went over some material about atom structure, we covered Rutherford, Bohr, and Thomson. He really knew his stuff today so we also did some math problems involving proton masses. We also did a lot of vocabulary about elements and the periodic table. He did really well and I am positive his quiz will be easy!"

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"Today I spent more time with the student then usual because he had a five paragraph essay to write. It was not long, and easily structured with an intro, a logos paragraph, pathos paragraph, ethos paragraph, and a conclusion. Originally he wanted to write it on why violent video games are not bad for children, but after about 20 minutes of brainstorming and researching we decided to switch sides to say that they are harmful to the development of children. We used about 5 sources that were all cited, mostly from news websites. "

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"We covered critical reading and writing. We also discussed better ways of organization, such as using the phone widget included with android to keep track of important dates. We discussed a game plan for organizing his college search, and put the FAFSA deadline into his phone to ensure he will remember to get it in on time. I also had him time himself on the sections and we reviewed his answers together. We decided that since he will be taking the test very soon to concentrate on long passages as that is where he has the least stamina for the test. The writing section is also giving him some problems where the subject and verb are somewhat disconnected, and there is some confusion on when to use a comma or semicolon."